The have been lots of posts about WPA encryption - and it's got difficult to find out where workingsolutions have been posted - some of the posts are useful discussions that don't seem to have culminated in a solution.
I'm using
Puppy 2.02, Hard Disk install on an HP XE2 laptop.
My network card is Linksys WPC54G (ver1.2)

I've worked manually with NDISWRAPPER, and it all works fine with WEP - but not quite with WPA. But my output from

The usual way is to use a wpa_supplicant.conf file. Do you have one of those? The readme's for the drivers seem to be pretty good, and should tell you how to use it.

What is your error indication? Some boot message? It would be good for you to print that portion of "dmesg" out here, and give us your wpa_supplicant.conf, and show us what your rc.wireless and rc.local scripts look like also.

I am using ndiswrapper and wpa_supplicant. Getting it running was pretty painful, and I still don't know what the difficulty was. But it is working.

iwpriv is used to access features of wifi drivers which are unique to that driver. This would include control of WPA setup ONLY if the wifi driver has inbuilt support for WPA, but currently there is only one such driver: Ralink.

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